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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, anton@samba.org,
	Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Subject: Re: [PULL] cpumask offstack finalization
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 22:18:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110210211818.GA19463@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=zr5bZTankxU3oysM_bP=ty1Bze7K8BQ75yMBL@mail.gmail.com>


* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 4:44 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> >
> > Hm, could we get rid of the obsolete percpu APIs once and for all? The fact that 
> > they are still around cause the leakage into new code to begin with.
> 
> Yes please.
> 
> And please don't expect it to be merged until the 39 merge window unless this also 
> fixes some serious bugs (I assume - without having looked at the patch - that none 
> of these are actually on-stack and relevant for any thousand+ cpu machines?)

Yeah, i considered it strictly .39 material.

Thanks,

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-10 21:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-09  5:38 [PULL] cpumask offstack finalization Rusty Russell
2011-02-10 12:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-02-10 19:29   ` Linus Torvalds
2011-02-10 21:18     ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2011-02-10 21:32   ` Rusty Russell
2011-02-10 22:13     ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-02-10 23:51       ` Linus Torvalds
2011-02-10 23:59         ` Ingo Molnar
2011-02-11 13:41           ` Alexey Dobriyan
2011-02-11 14:07             ` Ingo Molnar
2011-02-11 13:44         ` Alexey Dobriyan

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